Qantas had its own dramatic ‘’snakes on a plane'’ episode when a three-metre python joined passengers on an early morning flight to Papua New Guinea.

But unlike Samuel L. Jackson’s 2006 fictional Hollywood blockbuster in which a nest of vipers causes death and destruction on a jet, this reptile was concerned only with self-preservation.

QF191 was about 20 minutes into its 6.15am flight from Cairns to Port Moresby on Thursday when a woman pointed outside the plane and told cabin crew: ‘’There’s a snake on the wing … There’s its head and if you look closely you can see a fraction of its body.'’

Squeezy the Pension Python, having disappeared shortly after being fumigated by Illinois Gov Pat Quinn for failing to solve the huge debt problem there was recently seen during an episode of the reptile reality TV show “SNAKES ALIVE” featuring their most popular stunt - jumbo gulp contest!

Squeezy has reportedly filed suit against the show for failing to pay into his pension fund.

Squeezey had been staying with the Governor, and was hungry after he realized there was nothing in the refrigerator. Since he was also very tired from working with the Governor night and day, Squeezey decided to take a vacation.

Gov. Quinn: If you don’t get in that plane you’ll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life… Last Session others said a great many things. Squeezy, you said I was to do the thinking for both of us. Well, I’ve done a lot of it since then, and it all adds up to one thing: you’re getting on that plane with SB1 where you belong.

Squeezy: But, Patrick, no…

Gov. Quinn: Now, you’ve got to listen to me! You have any idea what you’d have to look forward to if you stayed here? Nine chances out of ten, we’d both wind up in the Rules Committee, with no chance of passage. Isn’t that true, John?

President Cullerton: I’m afraid that Speaker Madigan would insist.

Squeezy: You’re saying this only to make me go.

Gov. Quinn: I’m saying it because it’s true. Inside of us, we both know you belong in “The Jungle Book” with Mowgli. You’re part of his story, the thing that keeps the plot going. If that plane leaves the ground and you’re not going to Mowgli, you’ll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.

Squeezy: But what about us?

Gov. Quinn: We’ll always have Paris (Illinois. Sorry - soccermom, I stole it from you!). We didn’t have, …we lost it… until you came to the State Capitol. We got it back the last night of the 97th Session.

Squeezy: When I said I would never leave you.

Gov. Quinn: And you never will. But I’ve got a job to do, too. Where I’m going, you can’t follow. What I’ve got to do, you can’t be any part of. Squeezy, I’m no good at being noble, but it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of a governor and his kooky made-up snake don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you’ll understand that. Now, now…